An Aggregator for Blogs About Social Engineering and Related Fields
A security awareness program is a critical part of any security strategy. It is not enough to simply hold everyone in the organization accountable.
Chief information security officers (CISOs) must first train employees to practice proactive, conscientious security behaviors by convincing them that security affects them directly, not just the business.
Georgia Tech researchers reported that hackers are using a technique identified with a new coined term “combosquatting” to trick users into visiting malicious websites.
Sorry to break it to you guys, but this type of social engineering has been done for at least a decade. Perhaps the actual news is the scale and fully automated level it happens at today.
Newsweek cross-posted an article that first appeared on The Daily Signal, and this is extremely relevant to what we are battling here today.
Kiev, Ukraine—Since 2014, Russia has used Ukraine as a testing ground for its hybrid warfare doctrine, underscoring what some security experts say is a case study for the new kinds of security threats the U.S. and its Western allies can anticipate from Moscow.
“The threats Ukraine faces are harbingers of things to come for the U.S. and its other allies,” said Junaid Islam, chief technology officer and president of Vidder, a California-based cybersecurity firm that does work in Ukraine.
“It is in the national strategic interests of both the United States and Ukraine to cooperate deeply in cybersecurity, because Ukraine is a canary in the cyberspace coal mine,” Islam told The Daily Signal.
